The purpose of the First Fire is First Father's Return to
the Corn Field.

But, first comes Judgment of the Peccaries.

Love rises in the east as the Ruler captures the Sense of Being and the
dawn comes with Truth and the Jaguar.

As the Moon falls under the horizon, Hunahpu catches the
Ball as he come down to Bonampak.

Author travels to the Land Under the Land as the Spirit of
Mars stirs.

The Earth and the Solar System align the two Knuckle
Balls.
JPL begins the roving of Spirit on Mars, awaiting the arrival of
Opportunity.

Martian VolcanoesFires that shook me once, but now to silent ashes fall'n away.
Cold upon the dead volcano sleeps the gleam of dying day.
- Tennyson

Mars is only about one-half the size of
Earth and yet has several
volcanoes that surpass the scale of the largest
terrestrial volcanoes.
The most massive volcanoes are located on huge uplifts or domes in the Tharsis
and Elysium regions of Mars. The Tharsis dome is 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles)
across and rises to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) in height. Located on its
northwest flank are three large
shield volcanoes:
Ascraeus Mons, Pavonis Mons and Arsia Mons. Beyond the dome's northwest edge is
Olympus Mons, the largest of the Tharsis volcanoes. Olympus Mons is classified
as a shield volcano. It is 24 kilometers (15 miles) high, 550 kilometers (340
miles) in diameter and is rimmed by a 6 kilometers (4 miles) high
scarp. It is one of
the largest volcanoes in the Solar System. By comparison the largest volcano on
Earth is Mauna Loa
which is 9 kilometers (6 miles) high and 120 kilometers (75 miles) across.

Elysium Planitia is the second largest volcanic region on Mars. Elysium
Planitia is centered on a broad dome that is 1,700 by 2,400 kilometers (1,060 by
1,490 miles) in size. It has smaller volcanoes than the Tharsis region, but a
more diverse volcanic history. The three volcanoes include Hecates Tholus,
Elysium Mons and Albor Tholus.

The Year of Love and Light witnesses the Great Knuckle
Ball dropping from the hand of Mars coincides with the celestial and
ecliptic meridians. On the planet Mars, which is named after the Roman god
of rational being, is the largest volcano in the solar system as the Chi
Pisces equivalent of the Knuckle Ball of Andromeda. It is a sign that
rational harmony will be abundant in the year 2004, and the journey of man
will have accomplished its goal. During that same week, men on earth will be
bouncing around the Red Planet on cameras of a Martian Rover called Spirit.
It is a very good sign when the message above is the same as the message
below, even if this author has to travel to the country of Tierra del Fuego
(Land of Fire) to witness the cosmic harmony, and even if below is a cup
called Gusev Crater on Mars. But for an organism that has come so far, it is
only fitting that the new process of cosmic exploration should receive such
an incredible show. Judgment Day has come and gone. The Age of Pisces can
now begin again.

The zenith in the mountains at Santiago.

Siloam goes to Siloam where the Phoenix flies at the End
of the River,
proving that what goes around comes around.

PASADENA, Calif. (Jan. 15) - The Spirit rover successfully rolled onto Mars
early Thursday, placing its six wheels on solid Martian ground for the first
time since the robot bounced down on the Red Planet nearly two weeks ago.
Engineers and scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory cheered loudly
after receiving confirmation at 5 a.m. EST that the maneuver was a success.

''Mars now is our sandbox, and we are
ready to play and learn,'' said JPL director Charles
Elachi.

Black-and-white pictures beamed from Spirit showed its two rear wheels on the
Martian soil, with its lander behind it. Two parallel tracks led away from the
lander.

''This is a big relief. We are on Mars. Spirit has landed,'' said Rob Manning,
manager of the entry, descent and landing portion of the mission. ''Our wheels
are finally dirty.''

Jennifer Trosper, mission manager for surface operations, opened a celebratory
bottle of champagne at a news conference.

''Now we are the mission that we all envisioned 3 1/2 years ago,'' she said.

Elachi noted President Bush's call on Wednesday for moon missions and long-term
robotic and human journeys to Mars.

''We at NASA, we move awfully fast,'' Elachi joked. ''In less than 15 hours, we
are doing our first step.''

Spirit was to have taken less than two minutes to travel the 10 feet from the
unfolded petals of its lander onto Mars. Engineers said the move likely would be
the riskiest of Spirit's entire three-month mission.

Engineers delayed the move for three days to give Spirit time to reposition
itself atop its lander, where it had sat since arriving. Spirit had to turn in
place 115 degrees to line up with one of the exit ramps that ring the lander.

Originally, Spirit was to roll straight off the lander on its ninth day on Mars.
But the now-deflated air bags that cushioned the rover's Jan. 3 landing blocked
that way, forcing Spirit to perform a slow pirouette, turning clockwise in three
separate moves.

Mission plans called for Spirit to spend several days parked beside its lander
after rolling off, giving it time to find its bearings and perform some
preliminary analysis of the soil and rocks around it.

NASA then planned for Spirit to begin a meandering trip in the direction of an
impact crater about 825 feet away. Spirit was designed to travel dozens of yards
a day.

On its way, scientists said Spirit would prospect for geologic evidence that the
now dry Red Planet was once wetter and hospitable to life. Spirit landed in the
middle of Gusev Crater, a 95-mile-wide depression scientists believe contained a
lake during the ancient past.

Even while parked, Spirit remained busy. It used its nine cameras to take at
least 3,900 pictures of its surroundings. Mission scientists used those images,
including sweeping panoramas, to chart the rover's planned movements.

The $820 million project also includes a second, identical
rover named Opportunity. Spirit's twin should land on the opposite side of the
Red Planet on January 24.

Sojourner, the far smaller rover that NASA landed on Mars in 1997, spent a
single day atop the Pathfinder lander before shoving off to roam its
surroundings. It rolled about 300 feet and provided pictures and chemical
analyses of Mars' surface before losing contact. Spirit is far more complex and
took 12 days to unfold and ready itself.

A few hours before the rover's big move, Vice President Dick Cheney toured the
Mars mission control center and praised the staff as ''America's most dedicated
and successful scientists and researchers.''

His visit Wednesday coincided with President Bush's announcement in Washington
of a renewed push for space research. Bush unveiled a plan to send astronauts
back to the moon as early as 2015 and to land someone on Mars.

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Man has arrived on the Martian Soil.

The East Hill Complex where Spirit will roam.

Starry Night shows the Phoenix and Whale at the End of the River above the
East Hill Complex.

The Sky and Siloam.net show Man with a Foot on Mars.

Spirit has come to Mars, and is looking eastward.

The Spirit of Man has left the earthly tomb
and gone to Mars.
As it was above down here, so it is now above up there.
Truth in the stars is what we make of it.
It is the clear intent of First Father that Man should journey
throughout the body of First Mother.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
a Cosmos without out end, A-Men.